JVP Special - Verdant Dreams of Olam haBa: The World to Come 5782
Purchase your Olam haBa planner now and we will donate $5 from each book to Jewish Voice for Peace!
This planner combines Hebrew, Gregorian and moon calendars in one gorgeous sparkling spiral bound book! With new art, intuitive writings, and ritual offerings for each month. Plus lots of space to write your own dreams, plans and reflections.
Printed on Nisqually/Squaxin land in so-called Olympia WA.
Limit of 4 planners per order. To organize a bulk order for you synagogue or JVP chapter, visit our bulk orders page.
Refunds and exchanges not available for this item unless it arrives damaged..
Purchase your Olam haBa planner now and we will donate $5 from each book to Jewish Voice for Peace!
This planner combines Hebrew, Gregorian and moon calendars in one gorgeous sparkling spiral bound book! With new art, intuitive writings, and ritual offerings for each month. Plus lots of space to write your own dreams, plans and reflections.
Printed on Nisqually/Squaxin land in so-called Olympia WA.
Limit of 4 planners per order. To organize a bulk order for you synagogue or JVP chapter, visit our bulk orders page.
Refunds and exchanges not available for this item unless it arrives damaged..
Purchase your Olam haBa planner now and we will donate $5 from each book to Jewish Voice for Peace!
This planner combines Hebrew, Gregorian and moon calendars in one gorgeous sparkling spiral bound book! With new art, intuitive writings, and ritual offerings for each month. Plus lots of space to write your own dreams, plans and reflections.
Printed on Nisqually/Squaxin land in so-called Olympia WA.
Limit of 4 planners per order. To organize a bulk order for you synagogue or JVP chapter, visit our bulk orders page.
Refunds and exchanges not available for this item unless it arrives damaged..
Dreaming the World to Come is so grateful to be in community with Jewish Voice for Peace! We recently experienced some Zionist pushback after trying to get some mainstream press, and we have turned it into an opportunity to collaborate more intentionally with JVP and raise money for radical, liberatory, anti-colonial Jewish organizing. Below is our thinking about what we do and don’t include in the calendar, and why it is important.
What holy-days are we marking? We don’t include the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or Columbus Day on our calendar, and yes we do include Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day. We don’t include Yom HaAtzama’ut or Yom Hazikaron, and yes we do include Nakba Day as well as Yom HaShoah. We choose to highlight legacies of resistance, and de-emphasize the hallmarks of empire.
How we keep time and how we make a calendar is a radical act, and it is very intentional. In Olam haBa, we consciously choose to prioritize and uplift holy days that have been erased by mainstream Judaism. We include the North African Jewish holidays of Chag Ha’Banot and Mimouna, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) holiday of Sigd, the elaborate Kabbalistic counting of the Omer practice, and religious days like minor fasts and special Shabbatot that we don’t always practice, but that might be useful to know about. It’s a political act to chart time in a way that roots in what feels valuable from our multilayered traditions, culling out what feels oppressive, and dreaming into what is possible.
The Olam haBa planner opens to the expansiveness of our community. It’s rooted in the voices of Jews throughout the diaspora and embodies the spirit of Olam haBa, the world to come, by highlighting perspectives of Jews that have often been left out — Jews of Color, women, trans, and nonbinary Jews, disabled and queer Jews, and Jews by choice.
Olam haBa contributor YA (Kohenet Meshacreret Amah, One Who Liberates Her People) writes about this in her Verdant Dreams contribution:
“The intersections and relationships between the land and people, sowing and reaping, poverty, access and debt are confronted and a choice is made, we must metabolize and equalize the impact of long term generational trauma... Right in that tension that re-lease happens, the earth gets to rest. We get to literally...redistribute the weight of our community. Transforming tzedakah into a multilayered inhabitation and embodiment.
...In the year of shmita, is a time to examine and go a step further, taking the time to examine the commitments we’ve made from places of fear, impacting our roots and our capacity to be here. This is an invitation to craft, to incant, a new relationship with your rootedness, your in-vironment and environment… Coming home to the roots of your tree, roots not confined, roots that are free.”
Thank you for your support, and blessings on your 5782! We can’t wait to put your planner in the mail to you.